Individual Coaching
Individual coaching topics include: self-discovery, emotional health, finding love, dating, and relationships.
Life experiences that Valerie can speak to: multicultural relationships, Highly Sensitive Persons, chronic illness, infertility, disordered eating & body issues, anti-diet liberation, living with ADHD, questions of faith and spirituality and grief and loss.
Couples Coaching
Couples coaching clients are either dating or in a long term relationship and come for a variety of reasons: communication, compatibility, life changes, conflict, infidelity, family of origin issues, general unhappiness, cultural differences, etc.
Long term, committed relationships are complex and tough—don’t go it alone!
Group Coaching
Imagine having a space where you find other people who are feeling and dealing with the same things you are? Group coaching programs can fill the need for growth and connection that are vital to our emotional and relational health. Check out our first group: Reset Yourself to Find Love.
Coaching
My approach to coaching is very goals & skills oriented. We identify what isn’t working and how you want life to be different-and we go about making that happen. There might be skills that need to be learned, mindsets that get shifted and action taken.
Healing happens in many ways. Past experiences are explored then integrated into present and future oriented endeavors.
My work has been mostly with straight, cisgender individuals & couples—from a wide range of races, cultures and backgrounds. The bulk of my work has been with straight cisgender women trying to navigate relationships in a patriarchal society. I am committed to being an affirming place for those in LGBTQIA communities. I am also committed to cultural humility and curiosity. Let’s chat about what it might look like to work together—or if appropriate, I’d love to make an introduction to one of my amazing colleagues that have more expertise and lived experience that matches yours!
Valerie is committed to calling out systems of oppression and addressing the harm these systems have had on her clients and integrating this work into the healing process-including but not limited to: racism, colonialism, misogny, homophobia, xenophobia, fatphobia, ableism, and in general-any abuse of power.
Are you in California and interested in traditional therapy?